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Alerting
  • Alert intake from other tools
  • RUM alerts and dashboards
  • Cases
  • Forecast alerts
  • SLOs: excluded time
  • Triage views: rule status, alerts by case, blast radius
Api
  • GraphQL API
  • Query API
  • Sdks
  • Typed ids
  • Gates: deploy and merge
Compliance
  • Erasure requests and legal holds
Connectors
  • Asana
  • Azure DevOps
  • Beyla / OBI (eBPF auto-instrumentation)
  • Integration catalog and marketplace
  • Change-event sources
  • CI visibility
  • Deployments from CI
  • ClickUp
  • Falco
  • Feature flags
  • Gatus
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Grafana
  • Jira
  • Linear
  • SAP
  • Security event connectors
  • ServiceNow
  • Shortcut
  • Slack
  • Team sync
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Tetragon
  • Connector tiers
  • Wazuh
  • Test visibility and Test Impact Analysis
  • Data Jobs (OpenLineage + Spark/Databricks)
Editor
  • JetBrains
  • Editor language server (wtctl lsp)
  • VS Code
Infra
  • wt-agent
  • Cloud metric pulls
  • Cloud and virtualization
  • Cloudflare
  • eBPF whole-system profiler (ebpfprofiler)
  • eBPF zero-code tracing and network telemetry
  • Fleet control
  • Integrations
  • Kubernetes cost and rightsizing
  • Network configuration management
  • Serverless (AWS Lambda, Cloud Run, Azure Functions)
  • Vercel drains
  • NoSQL, search and key-value depth
  • Relational Database Monitoring in the agent
  • Job queues
  • Amazon ECS
  • Object Storage Monitoring
  • Agent socket CSI driver
  • Message brokers in the data-streams view
Ingest
  • Archive, rehydration and pipeline replay
  • Angular
  • CDN script tag
  • Next.js
  • React
  • SvelteKit
  • Vanilla JavaScript
  • Vue
  • Browser logs
  • Browser profiling
  • Ingest cost shaping
  • Data contracts and the attribute registry
  • Datadog Agent
  • Elasticsearch bulk (Beats, Logstash, Fluentd)
  • Scheduled data export
  • Log files (filelog)
  • Fluent Bit
  • Jaeger
  • systemd journald
  • Log index tuning
  • Loki push (Promtail, Alloy, Grafana Agent, Docker driver)
  • Importing metric samples
  • Mobile crash and vitals ingest (server half)
  • Ingest pipelines
  • Private connectivity: per-zone ingest endpoints
  • .NET
  • Go
  • JVM (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
  • Native (C, C++, any Linux binary)
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Profiles
  • Prometheus metrics
  • Relays: store-and-forward ingestion at the edge
  • Sources and destinations
  • Splunk HTTP Event Collector
  • Syslog
  • Telegraf
  • Storage tiers, per-filter retention, trace pinning, archive search
  • OpenCensus and Kafka span receivers
  • Usage intelligence
  • Vector
  • Loading exported Parquet into a warehouse
  • Zipkin
  • Azure Monitor (Event Hubs)
  • Metrics without Limits (tag configs)
  • Pipeline presets
  • Trace sampling, exact RED and span-based metrics
  • Shaping rules and the match expression
Instrumentation
  • Dotnet
  • Dynamic Probes
  • Go
  • Java
  • Native
  • Node
  • Php
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Client Storage
  • Embedded Datastores
  • Sql Normalization
  • Remote Upgrades
Migration
  • Migrating to Watchtower
  • From Datadog
  • Importing from export files
  • From Grafana
  • On-call migrations
  • From Splunk
Notifications
  • Notification channel catalog
Onboarding
  • Browser
  • Dotnet
  • Go
  • Java
  • Node
  • Python
  • Rust
  • Test with curl (no SDK)
Oncall
  • On-call analytics and postmortems
  • Live call routing and IVR
  • Paging that wakes a human
  • HR time off (BambooHR, HiBob, Workday)
Plugins
  • plugin.yaml
  • Plugin SDK
  • Plugin security
Query
  • Query cost guardrails
  • Federated queries and HA deduplication
  • Query functions
  • Lucene and KQL log filters
  • Metric query dialects
  • Metric query extensions and the Datadog-style dialect
  • Pipe language
  • PromQL compatibility
  • SQL tables
  • Trace query language and funnels
  • Anomaly insights and the sweep
  • OTLP metric names in PromQL
Sdk
  • Go
  • wt-dev: local OTLP sink
  • Exception replay: local variables on the throwing frame
Security
  • Audit log: integrity, export, forwarding
  • SCIM provisioning
  • External secret stores
  • Signed ingest
  • Single sign-on, JIT and MFA policy
  • App and API Protection
Uptime
  • Uptime check types
  • k6-compatible scripts and load tests
  • Mobile app checks
  • Private locations
  • Static source IPs
  • Trace-based tests
  • Monitors API
  • Getting started
  • Accessibility statement: hosted activity log and <wt-activity>
  • Activity log governance and compliance
  • Knowledge sources for the investigator
  • Product analytics boundary
  • Service map
  • App Builder
  • Configuration as code
  • Code Security
  • Cloud cost
  • Deep links and embedding
  • DORA metrics
  • Endpoints
  • Errors
  • Health endpoints for status pages
  • Instrumentation coverage
  • Plan limits and licenses
  • Managed LLM evaluators
  • Node.js SDK
  • Notification delivery
  • Privacy: RUM and session replay
  • Profiling overhead
  • Profiling platform coverage
  • Session replay operations
  • RUM API routes
  • SDK and instrumentation support matrix
  • Source code links for stack frames
  • Usage, budgets and cost allocation
  • Workflows
  • wtctl: install, version and release
Dashboards
  • Powerpacks
  • Dashboard spec reference
Integrations
  • Message brokers
Admin
  • Administration guide
  • Recommended disaster-recovery settings
  • Standard attributes
  • Keys and scopes
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Admin

4 pages · Updated Nov 10, 2026

  • Administration guideUpdated Nov 10, 2026 · 5 min read→
  • Recommended disaster-recovery settingsUpdated Nov 10, 2026 · 2 min read→
  • Standard attributesUpdated Nov 10, 2026 · 3 min read→
  • Keys and scopesUpdated Nov 10, 2026 · 3 min read→
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